Art of salting nuts



Patented Oct. 12,1926. I i V i l i UNITED STATES PATENT oFF cEQ DAVID FREDERICK KUHN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

' l ART or SALTING News No Drawing. Application filed- April 20, 1925. Serial No. 24,680.

My improvement relates to improved stirred. Thesalt will be distributed evenly processes of salting nuts and to a particular over the nuts but will not melt or run, form of salted nut. This process preserves They are then placed in trays lined with the freshness of the nuts, gives them a manilla paper or similar material, and dried glaze and distributes the salt over them in in a warm (not hot) air-tight drying room a granular condition. The nuts retain their for about one hour. They are then ready natural color, and few, even of the most for sale. fragile kinds, are broken in the process and The nuts when so treated retain their these few are easily picked out and removed. native color; the salt is evenly distributed Their appearance when prepared according both as respects thickness of and regularity to my improved process is very attractive. of coating. The evaporation of the mois- They hold their flavor, and they are preture contained in the nut is greatly retarded vented from becoming rancid. and as the nut is protected from contact The nuts can be blanched in any of the With the air it does not become rancid. As

usual ways. However, preferably I blanch the use of fats or oils is unnecessary in them as follows :I place them for about my process, rancidness from them is also I live minutes in scalding Water, which genavoided. Burning of the'nuts, and baking erally is lon enough to permit the skins them hard in spots isalso avoided because to he removed. They are then drawn from by my process great heatis not required at the hot water, and placed in cold water, any stage. The proper flavor .is obtained and allowed to cool. They are then drawn more certainly and readily through the from the cold water and the skins removed above described method of roasting them. either by hand or machine. v I claim 7 Q The nuts are then placed in pans, lined l. The process of coatin nuts with salt with manilla paper or some similar mate Which comprises roasting them in an oven rial, and roasted in an oven. This should closed to the air until the desired flavor bedone innnediately after blanching them, is attained, then removing them from the and this roasting should be carried on with oven, and treating them, while still warm such care as will produce an evenly roasted but not while being heated, with a solution nut. This roasting I do in a closed oven, of gelatine in water, and agitating them,

having peri'ertly air-tight compartments so and then after an interval, when the nuts that the nuts, While being roasted, are not are still warm and when the gelatine soluexposed to any deleterious gases, which, tion has nearly but not completely hardespecially coal gasI exclude carefully from ened, sprinkling them with salt and agitatcontact with them. 7 ing them again, and then drying them at a When the nuts have been roasted, I remoderate heat in an air tight receptacle. move them from the oven, and place them 2. The process as defined in claim 1, with in thin layers in cooling trays, at which time this additional step, the nuts having been also I can remove any imperfect nuts. blanched previously to roasting 'them' by I 40 While they are still warm, I pour over placing them in hot water, drawing them them a solution of gelatine (preferably from the hot water and placing them in about 1 oz. gelatineto one gill of water), one cold water and allowing them to cool, and

gill of this solution being used with each 15 then drawingthem from the cold water and lbs. of nuts. The nuts are stirred to make removing the skins.

the coating aseven as possible, and to make 3. The process as defined in claim 1 with sure the entire surface of the nut is covered this additional elementz-the gelatine soluy it. This coating dries in about two mintion being approximately one ounce of utes suliiciently to allow the saltingf Just gelatine to one gill of water.

before the nuts coated with gelatine are quite dry, they are sprinkled withsalt and DAVID FREDERICK KUHN. 

